Stridentism
Stridentism (Spanish: Estridentismo) was an artistic and multidisciplinary
Chronology
1921: Mexico City, December 31, Manuel Maples Arce gives the first manifesto out.
1923: Maples Arce and List Arzubide give out the second manifesto, in the city of Puebla.
1923: Irradiador: short-lived journal (September, October, and November of 1923)
1924: First Stridentist Expo, at the "Café de nadie", in Mexico City.
1925: The group moves from Mexico City to Xalapa (recreated in their works as "Estridentópolis"). Third manifesto in the city of Zacatecas.
1926: Fourth and last manifesto in Ciudad Victoria.
1927: The group separates, for political reasons.
1929-1930: A group of stridentists met in Paris and participated in the group Cercle Et Carre.
1930: Leopoldo Méndez and German List Arzubide traveled to the United States.
1932: Germán Cueto and Arqueles Vela returned to Mexico City from Paris
Artists
Poets: Manuel Maples Arce, Germán List Arzubide, Salvador Gallardo.
Writers/Journalists: Arqueles Vela, Carlos Noriega Hope.
Visual artists:
Multidisciplinary artists: Germán Cueto, Luis Quintanilla, Jean Charlot, Gaston Dinner.
Musicians: Silvestre Revueltas, Ángel Salas.
Photographers: Edward Weston, Tina Modotti.
Bibliography
- Schneider, Luis Mario. El estridentismo o una literatura de la estrategia, México: Conaculta, 1997. ISBN 970-18-0376-0
- Escalante, Evodio. Elevación y caída del estridentismo, México: Conaculta, 2002. ISBN 970-18-8138-9
- Hadatty Mora, Yanna. La ciudad paroxista. Prosa mexicana de vanguardia (1921–1932), México: UNAM, 2009. ISBN 978-607-20-0360-6
- Rashkin, Elissa J. The Stridentist Movement in Mexico: The Avant-garde and Cultural Change in the 1920s, Lanham, Maryland, USA: Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2009. ISBN 978-0-7391-3156-5
- Flores, Tatiana. Mexico’s Revolutionary Avant-Gardes: From Estridentismo to ¡30-30!, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-300-18448-8
- Klych, Linda. The Noisemakers: Estridentismo, Vanguardism, and Social Action in Postrevolutionary Mexico, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0-520-29640-4